January 23 Friday – In Keokuk, Henry Clemens wrote to Sam.

Your letters seem to be very strongly afflicted  with a lying-in-the-pocket propensity; for no sooner had I read your last, but  one, than it was consigned to one of the pockets of my overcoat, from whose  “vasty depths” I have but this moment fished it up, to answer it.

You seem to think Keokuk property is so good to speculate in, you’d  better invest all your spare change in it, instead of going to South America [MTBus  31-2]. Note: The writing seems familiar, doesn’t it? Henry may have been  the perfect alter ego of Sam, but he was as literate at the young age of  eighteen.